WordPress has a lot of buzz right now. If you make a plugin for it, people will try it out. If you try to sell a theme or a plugin, it seems to get interest in the market. Some have even hired employees because the business got so good with it.
Anyway, I had this idea of leveraging that market. One person recently tweeted on Twitter that he used WordPress instead of Basecamp. My idea, instead, would be to make a plugin for WordPress that provide a kind of Basecamp/ActiveCollab kind of system for WordPress.
I wanted to collect your opinions about it:
- Do you think it should be one WP install, one project? Or one WP install, supporting multiple projects?
- Would you envision functionality integration using the Posts and Users tables?
- Would you envision functionality integration using the Pods Plugin with some pods with that instead of using WP's Posts and Users tables?
- Would you envision functionality integration going it alone with its own exclusive tables inside the WP database?
- What other kinds of things would you like to see in such a project?
- How would you implement private areas in the system where only non-clients could interact in privacy?
Just note that somehow I have to build it on top of WordPress to leverage that market spin. I could just as well build a standalone app, but then it doesn't leverage the marketspin.
Basecamp-Like Plugin for WordPress
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Re: Basecamp-Like Plugin for WordPress
Interesting idea. Most functionality needed is already in wordpress I think.
Posts = tasks/todo items
Custom fields = extra fields for the tasks
Users = members
Categories = projects?
Pages = overviews?
There are already some user system plugins which extend what users can and cannot do. Only edit posts owned by oneself, etc
At first thought I would keep it as simple as possible. Start with only a theme which makes the blog look like a basecamp-like app. Then add a few plugins for some specific functionality.
The more complex you make it, the more work it will be in supporting it, dealing with bugs and dealing with changes in Wordpress itself.
Posts = tasks/todo items
Custom fields = extra fields for the tasks
Users = members
Categories = projects?
Pages = overviews?
There are already some user system plugins which extend what users can and cannot do. Only edit posts owned by oneself, etc
At first thought I would keep it as simple as possible. Start with only a theme which makes the blog look like a basecamp-like app. Then add a few plugins for some specific functionality.
The more complex you make it, the more work it will be in supporting it, dealing with bugs and dealing with changes in Wordpress itself.